Product Description
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in The Man Who Owns the News.
With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch's $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as they’ve never been revealed before.
Written in the irresistible stye that only an award-winning columnist for Vanity Fair can deliver, The Man Who Owns the News offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale—and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.
About the Author
Michael Wolff, a columnist for Vanity Fair and two-time National Magazine Award winner, is one of the nation’s most influential writers about media, culture, and politics. He is a commentator for CNBC and a found of Newser (www.newser.com), the news aggregator. In 2003, he achieved international recognition for his dispatches from the Persian Gulf as the Iraq War began. His work, which has been widely anthologized, has appeared in numerous publications in The United States, including New York magazine, where he was a columnist, and the Guardian and Spectator in The United Kingdom. He is the author of four other books, including Autumn of the Moguls and Burn Rate. He lives in New York City.
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评分我必须承认,这本书的语言风格极其凝练,充满了力量感和一种近乎诗意的批判性。它没有冗余的形容词堆砌,每一个句子都像是经过了千锤百炼的刀锋,直指核心。书中经常出现一些短促、有力的排比句,用以强调权力结构的坚固和变革的艰难,读起来有一种沉重的压迫感。比如,当描述市场情绪如何被瞬间点燃或熄灭时,作者用的词汇选择极其精准,既有宏大的气势,又不失对微观心理的捕捉。特别是关于“垄断”如何成为一种自我实现的预言,那段论述,其哲学思辨的深度,足以让人停下来反复默读数遍。这不是一本轻松的读物,它要求读者拥有一定的背景知识储备,但对于那些愿意投入心力去啃读的读者而言,它提供的思想养分是极其丰厚的,堪称是一部充满智慧光芒的现代寓言。
评分这本书的结构处理堪称一绝,它不像传统的传记那样线性推进,而是采用了多条时间线和不同视角相互交织的叙事手法,使得整个故事更具史诗感和宿命感。作者巧妙地利用了“闪回”和“预叙”来构建悬念,每一次场景的切换,都像是在转动一个精密的多面体棱镜,从不同的切面折射出同一个事件的复杂性。这种叙事上的“碎裂美学”,要求读者必须保持高度的专注力,但回报也是巨大的——当所有碎片最终拼凑起来时,那种豁然开朗的震撼感,是很少有书籍能给予的。它不急于给出答案,而是引导读者自己去建构逻辑链条,这种参与感极大地提升了阅读的深度。尤其是在描述那些跨越数十年的商业布局时,作者对历史细节的把握精确到令人发指,仿佛他就是那个时代的幽灵,亲眼目睹了一切的发生。
评分这部作品初读时,我被它那种近乎冷酷的叙事风格深深吸引。作者似乎有一种魔力,能将那些盘根错节、本应枯燥乏味的商业运作,描绘得如同莎士比亚笔下的宫廷斗争,充满了权谋、背叛与无尽的算计。它不仅仅是对某个行业内部运作机制的解剖,更像是一面放大镜,照出了现代社会中权力如何悄无声息地渗透和重塑人们的认知边界。书中对信息流动的描绘尤其精彩,每一次数据传输、每一次收购谈判,都仿佛带着电流的噼啪声,让人能真切感受到“掌握信息即是掌握未来”的残酷现实。那种步步为营、滴水不漏的布局,让人在阅读时不得不屏住呼吸,生怕错过任何一个微小的暗示。它挑战了我们对于“透明度”的传统理解,揭示了在光鲜亮丽的行业表象之下,隐藏着怎样一个由少数人精心编织的复杂网络。读完合上书本,我发现自己看待新闻报道的角度都变得更加审慎和多维了。
评分从纯粹的阅读乐趣上来说,这本书的节奏控制达到了大师级别。尽管题材严肃,但它绝不沉闷。作者深知如何调动读者的好奇心,总是在关键的转折点设置“留白”,迫使你急切地想翻到下一页去寻找真相。书中高潮部分的冲突处理尤其精彩,那种不是通过武力,而是通过信息不对称和心理战术实现的“较量”,远比传统的动作场面来得扣人心弦。我几乎能感受到那种无声的博弈中,空气都凝固了。最让我印象深刻的是,它没有落入“揭秘”的俗套,没有将所有内幕和盘托出,反而留下了足够的空间让读者去想象那些未被言明的、更深层次的博弈。这使得本书在合上之后,仍能在脑海中持续发酵、延伸,成为一个值得反复回味和讨论的文本。它提供了一种关于现代社会运作的、令人不安却又异常迷人的视角。
评分Sensational and nicely written; About 15 hours of audio books finally done. The conclusion is a little anticlimatic.
评分Sensational and nicely written; About 15 hours of audio books finally done. The conclusion is a little anticlimatic.
评分Sensational and nicely written; About 15 hours of audio books finally done. The conclusion is a little anticlimatic.
评分Sensational and nicely written; About 15 hours of audio books finally done. The conclusion is a little anticlimatic.
评分Sensational and nicely written; About 15 hours of audio books finally done. The conclusion is a little anticlimatic.
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